INTRODUCTION TO STUDYING MULTIMEDIA AUTHORING SYSTEM

In this course we had some online classes, also classes in the classroom. This page is a result of this course.

LEARNING IN NETWORKS

That is my first online course. We are learning about online learning, how is it working, how can students collaborate on net, what kind of learning on net exist,….

Course literature:

Aggarwal, Anil (2003). Web-based Education: Learning from Experience. Idea Group Inc. Available as an e-book.

Chapter X (9 pages); Chapter XIII (19 pages)

Research papers (about 15-30 pages) distributed by the teacher.

MULTIMEDIA TOOLS

I don’t really love this subject because of the schedule. J We have classes on Saturdays from 8 a.m. till 4 p.m. Programs we are working with:

• PowerPoint 2003, for multimedia
• Audacity, for sound editing
• Adobe Photoshop 7, for image editing
• Macromedia Flash 5, for interactive hypermedia
• Windows Movie Maker, for video editing.

I have already meet most of these programmes in Slovenia, but I still getting a lot of new information how to used them.

Current Issues in Communication Studies: Perspectives on Democracy and Citizenship

Multidisciplinary Current issues -course aims to give an overview of Finnish communication studies on democracy and citizenship. I like this course a lot. Literature is great and interesting, also the way of learning is something different for me. It is also online course, but here students and professors don’t know each other. We are from Universities all over the Finland.

Each we are required to do different activities, usually based on at least one of the provided articles. Weekly discussions on forums and learning diaries. Also learning diaries are something new for me.

SURVIVAL RUSSIAN

I took this course because on april I am going to excursion St. Petersburg with University and I always find Russia as really special and interesting country. Till now we had just one class, but it is great! Teacher is symphatic Russian guy who is really trying to learn us something.

In firs course we met Russian alafabet. They have some special letters. But now, when I know how to read, I understand a lot of word because some of them are similar with Slovenian or Croatian words.

SURVIVAL FINNISH

I am taking this course at Polytechnik University. This is our last week. I am happy because because it was pretty boring. And I can tell you: Finnish it is not really easy language to learn!